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Place of birth: USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam. He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McClean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Where the Buffalo Roam
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Where the Buffalo Roam

(1980) Screenplay
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
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6
Forever Lulu
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Forever Lulu

(2000) Writer
My Omaha
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My Omaha

(2025) Creative Consultant
American Hot Wax
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6

American Hot Wax

(1978) Screenplay

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